This Macedonian Lexicon drawn from the 16th century manuscript, offers valuable evidence and represents linguistic monument very similar to the modern Macedonian. Nevertheless, it still retains a significant number of ancient features and thus can help to clarify the evolution of Macedonian language and one of its dialects. The index of studied Macedonic words facilitates the use of this small dictionary "built randomly through associations of ideas", in which we already see a rudimentary form of linguistic inquiry. This reference to more modern methods makes this lexicon incomplete, but undoubtedly a precious gem of the millennial Macedonian continuity, whose multiple and exceptional testimonies the editors show with due importance.

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